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Kyoko Iwasaki

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Kyoko Iwasaki (岩崎 恭子, Iwasaki Kyōko; married name: Kyoko Saito (斎藤恭子), born July 21, 1978) is a Japanese swimming coach and retired Olympic swimmer from Numazu, Shizuoka. She won the gold medal in the 200 metres breaststroke at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She was 14 years and 6 days old, making her, as of prior to the 2024 games, the youngest Olympic gold medalist of all time in the discipline of swimming. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kyoko Iwasaki is the 4,433rd most popular athlete (down from 4,005th in 2019), the 3,650th most popular biography from Japan (down from 2,740th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Kyoko Iwasaki ranks 4,433 out of 6,025. Before her are Alexandra Stepanova, Oskars Melbārdis, Flora Duffy, Sven Riederer, Jiang Lin, and Liam Parsons. After her are Álvaro Martín, Elijah Manangoi, Walter Dix, Olga Vasdeki, Frank Rutherford, and Mykhailo Romanchuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Kyoko Iwasaki ranks 990. Before her are Takuya Kawaguchi, Didier Domi, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Ebrahim Mirzapour, Bram Tankink, and Michael Gravgaard. After her are Quique de Lucas, Rasoul Khatibi, Tsutomu Kitade, Andrija Zlatić, Sandro Luís Zamboni Britzke, and Adrien Hardy.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kyoko Iwasaki ranks 3,657 out of 6,245. Before her are Koji Nakajima (1977), Chiharu Icho (1981), Rika Ishikawa (1985), Kazuki Teshima (1979), Kunimitsu Sekiguchi (1985), and Masato Saito (1975). After her are Jun Kokubo (1980), Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu (1986), Kiyomitsu Kobari (1977), Masanobu Matsunami (1974), Yōhei Kajiyama (1985), and Tamotsu Komatsuzaki (1970).

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Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Kyoko Iwasaki ranks 60. Before her are Junko Asari (1969), Masashi Ebinuma (1990), Miya Tachibana (1974), Takaharu Furukawa (1984), Tomokazu Harimoto (2003), and Seiya Suzuki (1994). After her are Hayato Sakamoto (1988), Hiromi Suzuki (1968), George Bennett (null), Fumiko Okuno (1972), Soichi Hashimoto (1991), and Shingo Suetsugu (1980).

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